New Jersey chicken

[roylee]

We were butchering a couple of spring chickens in the back yard yesterday afternoon and an acquaintance stopped by to watch and have a homebrew. He said what we were doing was illegal in New Jersey. Is that true? It's a crime to butcher your own chicken for your own use in NJ? Tell me the food police haven't gone that far.

 

[the bunnay]

We were butchering a couple of spring chickens in the back yard yesterday afternoon and an acquaintance stopped by to watch and have a homebrew. He said what we were doing was illegal in New Jersey. Is that true? It's a crime to butcher your own chicken for your own use in NJ? Tell me the food police haven't gone that far.

I grew up in rural NJ. It isn't a state law, but there are some local laws depending on your municipality that prohibit it. Most people are just discrete about it, though.

 

[rsmith179]

Just say you're doing it for religious reasons. Here in Ohio, we're allowed to butcher our first born as long as you're doing it for your religion!

 

[jgln]

We were butchering a couple of spring chickens in the back yard yesterday afternoon and an acquaintance stopped by to watch and have a homebrew. He said what we were doing was illegal in New Jersey. Is that true? It's a crime to butcher your own chicken for your own use in NJ? Tell me the food police haven't gone that far.

What if you choke the chicken?? :cross:

 

[roylee]

I think in NJ that's illegal as well....